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Carel Boshoff

Carel Boshoff was a person who lived in South Africa. He was born a long time ago and lived a very long life. He was also very interested in politics and the history of South Africa.

Carel Boshoff was born in 1927 and grew up in a time when South Africa was very segregated. This means that people of different races were not allowed to live together or be treated equally.

As he got older, Carel Boshoff became interested in a political idea called apartheid. Apartheid was a system that separated people based on their race. It was a very unfair and unjust system that treated people very differently based on the color of their skin.

Carel Boshoff was one of the people who supported this idea, and he even helped to create a political group called the "Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging" or AWB. This group was very dangerous and violent, and they wanted to keep apartheid in place.

After a long, sad history of apartheid in South Africa, people started to realize how unfair it was. Carel Boshoff and the AWB were eventually seen as a violent and oppressive group, and they lost their power and influence.

Today, we remember Carel Boshoff as someone who was once very influential, but who supported a very harmful idea. We learn from his story that it is important to treat everyone with kindness and fairness, no matter what they look like or where they come from.